Y’all ever notice how all the tankie types are eager to tell you your votes don’t matter but also conservatives are above rigging elections and Trump literally bragging about Elon rigging the election shouldn’t be investigated?
Investigate away DemAnon.
If you run into hostility regarding this investigation, perhaps it has something to do with the democrats scrambling to avoid responsibility for their failures. If democrats keep First-past-the-post voting in the blue states they control, and they tell people that they are the only option to beat the Republicans, then they cannot shirk responsibility here. I personally don’t see this acceptance from liberal commenter’s online or the democratic party at large. This will lead into another shitty campaign if we don’t call them out on their bullshit.
Please consider putting 1/10th the effort you expend here into passing electoral reform on your state so more people could be represented by their options in the voting booth. More people voting means a chance they would list the democrats as a 2nd choice. Why are the democrats saying no to these easy votes? Why would they say no to having more then one chance to defeat the republicans?
Videos on Electoral Reform
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.
Couldn’t help yourself, huh?
Man… Her post went from
"You can see that it appears to be a Python script that programmatically creates a series of synthetic ballot images (two pages per ballot) with random variations, then logs information about each generated image in a text file.
In essence, it’s simulating “filled-out” ballots."
to
"You basically see that this tool they built could be used to invalidate ballots in bulk.
Machines could do it during initial scanning instead of later on, or on custom metrics.
Just set the machines to count less blue ink ballots and instruct democratic areas to use blue pens.*
Either I missed something vital or she’s talking out of her ass.
The point is though, even if we had 100% certifiable proof that the 2024 election was rigged with direct ties to Trump and/or Musk being responsible by giving a direct command, I honestly don’t know if that would make any difference today.
I also don’t know exactly what she is getting at. What are these generated ballot images being used for precisely?
It’s not a great theory, and quite frankly I think getting stuck on a college project is silly when you can just make a new program with better resources but I think it goes:
1: Issue blue pens to swingable democratic regions (or whatever).
2: Have the machines set to generate a fake ballot image when it detects blue ink on the voter signature. Doesn’t need to be every ballot, just enough to swing the region.
3: Print the generated ballot instead of what they voted for. I’m not sure how all machines work but my area physically prints a paper copy, do any machines just keep entirely digital records?
4: Voter is apparently unaware their choices were changed.
This presumably wouldn’t work in my area any more as it prints a scannable code and your entries, but it would have worked in 2016 when it just printed the code.
I don’t buy this specific chain of events, but it is an excellent demonstration of why voting machines are just a stupid fucking idea. Even if they were the most secure, unhackably hardcoded systems in existence there would always be doubts.
On the other hand, it’s not like paper ballots are tamper proof themselves.
But let me get this straight - this requires access to the voting machine in a way that allows installing software that somehow intervene with the existing voting software.
And perhaps I am naive here, but I would assume that such a voting machine runs either
- custom firmware / embedded operating system
- custom version of Windows
- custom or special purpose Linux
- Windows in kiosk mode so normal users can’t access other application than the voting software nor OS settings.
As a minimum I would assume kiosk mode, but to be honest I would expect much more than that from a voting system, including tightened security and no or very limited interoperability between the voting software and other software on the machine. And I am not seeing any nasty malicious system-level code in the repo.
And yes, as you highlight, it is hard to buy this chain of events and yes, voting machines are a bad idea. As a technical person it sounds like conspiracy theorizing.
Fake data to test the validator program as some random guys can’t have access to real filled in ballots.
Of course the hard part in hacking would not be generating the false ballots but putting them in the system.
Its a complete non story.
I didn’t think it would take this long for stuff like this to start surfacing.
I’ve always maintained that the party of “every accusation is a confession” who screamed about election fraud for 4 years committed election fraud.
All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have… Fellas, I need 11,000 votes, give me a break.
We already know they’re willing to commit fraud.
The rich are trying to achieve world domination before we collectively strip them of their excess wealth to fix wealth inequality and dethrone them.
I wish i were kidding…
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
I looked at the python code in the repository they linked, it doesn’t do anything suspicious. Unless they can come up with some better evidence. This is complete nonsense.
The bluesky OP links to a generator for “fake” ballot images - this is a test script. I generated thousands of “fake” background check applications once for a work project to test how much load the system could accommodate and if any number of likely data entry errors would break it. It’s a normal practice.
The suggestion that a student working on a voting-related project is suspicious ipso facto is silly. Your professors require you to pick an interesting topic to work on, and voter fraud or election fraud have been in the news.
It wasn’t at his professors request. It was at Elon Musk’s, who sponsored the “hackathon”.
It’s one thing to do on your own and another to do for a billionaire as a presumptive job interview.
What? Where are you getting that? (f)Elon Musk isn’t associated with the Berkley AI hackathon at all afaik.
Yeah, this is just circumstantial so far. There’s enough to justify continued effort, but this is no smoking gun yet.
I wouldn’t say complete nonsense the script used for their testing does take an image of a ballot and generate replicas with random errors.
It’s not a fire but it smells a hell of a lot like smoke.
No it doesn’t, the script doesn’t do jack shit except run a few tests in fake test directories. Come back when you have actual evidence of fraud. We aren’t Trumpster MAGA nuts who hoot at the first sign of dear leaders telling them stuff.
Edit: And maybe use a coding language next time that I’m not super familiar with.
I guess you are getting downvoted because you come of a little aggressive, but yeah, I also don’t see the real danger with these scripts by themselves.
Keep the evidence coming. Don’t stop digging.
it was not rigged. the voters didn’t like Biden Harris or the situation in Palestine along with the fact nothing major changed. We fought and voted, where are the politicians helping? And now we’re here
I’m not worried about the last one. Im worried about the next ones.
Please read the post.
Need more info
Man I knew bluemaga would follow the maga pipeline pretty strictly but its still weird seeing it come about.
Is bluemaga in the room with us right now, billy?
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“Left”-maga succeeded though. Palestinians won’t even be allowed to return home so you got mostly what you wanted. Unfortunately for you, some will survive.
You really are just in the maga pipeline. I hope you get better soon before a gay black woman leads you further into fascism and you celebrate it.
Your fake principles gave us trump, not my sober realism.
Yes, my principles to get the Dems to complete abandon the working class and call them a basket of deplorables and tell them they’re lying to themselves about not being able to find a job, afford food, or afford rent.
You got what you wanted, extra genocide in Gaza
It’s extremely ghoulish how BlueMAGA pretends that, just because my ignored the level of genocide happening under Biden, it didn’t actually happen.
GreenMaga loves dead gazans. Stand proud.
Are you still trying to argue there’s more genocide now than under Biden?
You have to be smart enough to realize that’s not an argument and is an undefendable position.
Or not, I guess. Sorry not sorry white people are now getting affected.
You’re commenting on an article about trump making things worse in Gaza, just like we all told you would happen.
Interesting that somehow race comes into the conversation here. Interesting indeed.
